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Citrus Fruit

Citrus Fruit

 
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Object Name: 
Citrus Fruit
Department
European
Category
Renaissance
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Date: 
about 1700
Color
AAT
colorless
opaque yellow
opaque white
Transparent blue
Technique
blown
cased
applied
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tooling
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17 cm, W: 10.1 cm, D: 5.4 cm
Accession Number: 
99.3.35
Credit Line: 
Gift of Rainer Zietz
Location: 
On Display
Description
Lemon. Opaque yellow cased with colorless, lattimo, translucent blue. Blown, cased; applied. Segmented ovoid body of opaque yellow glass cased with colorless (with translucent blue trails under colorless casing); surmounted with curled stem and two green leaves made of opaque yellow glass cased with translucent blue. At junction of leaves and stem, six-petaled flower of white glass with yellow center.
Inscription
SB/119/3 Back
Provenance
Rainer Zietz Limited, Source to 1999-11-04

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Publications

The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 125; BIB# 65446
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 7;
Recent Important Acquisitions, 42 (2000) illustrated, p. 183, fig. 16, center;

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